Florida Public Service Commission Chairwoman Nancy Argenziano said she was disappointed by Gov. Charlie Crists method of replacing her and Commissioner Nathan Skop on the panel next year with Tampa lawyer Julie Brown and West Palm Beach city official Eduardo Balbis though not with the actual choices themselves.
Despite lawmakers rejection of two earlier Public Service Commission nominees for lacking experience in the field, on Tuesday Gov. Charlie Crist continued a move to put outsiders on the panel, appointing West Palm Beach city official Eduardo Balbis and former city of Tampa attorney Julie Brown to the commission.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should expand a review of proposed federal water pollution standards that have drawn the ire of Florida environmental officials, businesses and farming interests, a group of businesses leaders said Wednesday.
The lawsuit challenging the federal health care law enacted this spring is likely to proceed after a federal judge in Pensacola said Tuesday that he was leaning toward letting at least some of the claims by several states against the administration continue.
Florida takes center stage this week in the fight over the federal health-care law that consumed Congress for the better part of a year, and along with it, so will a Pensacola judge who is no stranger to hot-button issues.
Newly minted lieutenant governor candidate Jennifer Carroll wont be the only Northeast Florida Republican moving to a new political job.
If Panama City resident Leon Delikat is any indication, Attorney General Bill McCollums focus on Rick Scotts history with Columbia Healthcare/HCA in their contentious primary for the Republican gubernatorial nomination will not carry McCollum to victory Tuesday.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene said Friday he will sue the St. Petersburg Times if the paper does not retract an article about his real estate transactions.
The courts were in session in the busy week that was and the Legislature will soon be, too.
After sitting in seats normally occupied by lawmakers for two days to push for the Legislature to come back to Tallahassee for a special session that includes renewable energy, environmentalists wrapped up their Clean Energy Congress, but said the pressure would continue.
